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Open Forum: Letters printed Nov. 23

Posted:
11/22/2012 09:23:59 PM MST

A modest proposal for a new Loveland museum

To the editor:

As to the question of the city spending $15 million to expand the museum, I have a suggestion. Since the city already owns that farm out at Colorado 402 and Interstate 25, why don't they build a new one out there?

Many reasons would support this: No land or remodeling costs; 160 acres for parking; no additional burden on the scarce parking downtown; no capital expansion fees; cheaper utilities furnished by Johnstown; less travel time for the construction workers who will all come out of Denver anyway; and no blockage of city streets during construction.

More reasons obtain, but the hole card is the monument they could build to symbolize the foresight of Loveland's City Councils. And to build it at our gateway -- what an epiphany.

Of course, putting $15 million into a museum is like franchising a horseshoe-pitching league. But Loveland just might do it.

John Ketchum

Loveland

The winners and losers from the recent elections

To the editor:

Reflecting on the recent elections winners and losers. Winners: America, showing once again what a great diverse nation we are. Women retained control of their body and a glimmer of hope for pay equity and gained increased female representation in the Senate and House. Latinos showed themselves to be an effective group of voters and improved their chances of gaining a more humane immigration policy. African-Americans defied attempts in swing states to reduce their numbers at the polls instead voted en masse.

Planned Parenthood was a big winner and will be able to continue to provide women with vital education and health care needs. Big Bird won, and PBS will continue to receive federal funding to supplement member donations. New Hampshire won becoming the first state to have a woman governor and all-female congressional delegation. Mormons won because the fact Romney is a Mormon was never an issue for voters. LGBT are winners with gay marriage approved by voters in two states and several LGBT being elected to Congress.

The losers: Mitt Romney, because he wasn't allowed by his own party to take a moderate position which would have given him the opportunity to win. The tea party lost some of their most vocal advocates in Congress. Old white men in Congress who haven't got a clue how devastating rape can be. Fox News and right wing radio and their uneducated following.

The top 2 percent lost first by trying to buy the elections and secondly when they tried to threaten their workers to vote for their party. The American people lost because over $2 billion was spent on campaigns while 14 million children go to bed hungry every night. Karl Rove and the Koch brothers lost over $100 million spent on losing campaigns.

Bottom line; I won. I contributed to seven House and Senate candidates from Massachusetts to Hawaii and President Obama while Karl Rove and his billionaires spent hundreds of millions for opposing candidates. Final score, my side, 8; Rove, Koch brothers and billionaires, 0. Nov. 6, 2012, was a great day.